About the Apple vs. Samsung jury verdict: "I hate it," Wozniak told Bloomberg, "I don't think the decision of California will hold. And I don't agree with it - very small things I don't really call that innovative. I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody's technologies." From the mouth of a real inventor and engineer.

Within a moderate range, many CSS layouts will work ok. But sometimes mobile devices just don't have the space to display all the information we'd like to have displayed on the full version - and we don't want to compromise the full version to accommodate mobile users.

CSS media tags can help in theory. But even with CSS tags it can be extremely difficult to bridge the gab between what designers are asking for and what CSS renders.

Trust me on this, I've "fought" with clients on numerous occasions - at one time even on a detail as minute as where the word-wraps occurred. I'd iterate the futility in trying to adjust layouts for their particular screens since it might even be counter-productive for users in different resolutions/browsers/window sizes/etc. One client must have spent days aligning menus & sidebar elements to individual paragraphs on the home page (and then maintaining those alignments). He couldn't comprehend the difficulty of making this work everywhere and didn't care about the idiosyncrasies that HTML presents us with. Don't tell anyone...but some requests were so frustrating to comply with that I did the unthinkable; I took the text into Gimp and used the resulting PNG on the website. It made my brain haemorrhage, but alas he was happy.

It's funny, but some sites such as ExtremeTech have horrendous mobile versions - in fact, ET often insists on centering the gutter, leaving half a column of text on each side, on my iPad. I have to partially slide the column over and hold it with my finger to read. Insane.

They have a "Use Desktop Version" link that switches to the desktop URL - which detects my iPad, and switches back to the mobile version.

Happily, my N900 is NOT detected, and so displays the site perfectly. So I end up switching to my tiny, ancient phablet to manually enter and read links found on my 10", latest OS rev iPad.